CSS - Testing Css In Different Browsers

This is where I always run into trouble. I don't know if I'm taking from the right approach but this is what I usually do and I always end up getting frustrated and taking it out of those poor IE users and just removing IE fixes completely.

I usually tackle completely design a site using Firefox and then apply patches as I get around to it ( a round tuit ), but sometimes, a fix will cause other errors and it just ends up in a domino effect until my IE CSS file is bigger than my Firefox CSS and there are still problems. How should I go about this? Should I go to the ghetto with $100 and go around shooting IE users .... or better yet IE development decision makers....?

I found the solution to my IE browser issues. There seems to be a new guide out there with a lot of great comments about it. The last guide I followed had a bunch of people asking for help. Hope this works.

In case you guys didn't know about this, you can have multiple versions of IE, back to IE3, running simultaneously on your machine (for testing out your web work).

Here's the link:
http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE

I just have IE5 through IE7 installed as there's no way I'm developing for 4 and below. Heck, I pretty much just test in IE6 and up.

Hope this helps.

Hello to all,
I have a problem of compatibility when using Safari (V3).
I have a strange interface and i can't identify the problem. When I refresh my page,I don't have the same css !!!!
The same interface is testing wit hFirefox and IE and it's ok.
Can you help me please.
Thank you in advance for your time.

Hi, targeting both IE and FF i seem to experience compatibility issues ... The CSS design on IE looks perfect, but same JSPs on FF gives a little bit of dull on colors (or fade) ... I also found some strange behavior in FF on my struts application which i don;t see when testing on EE. Sometimes a page reloads itself on submit... Any issues around this? Oh, i know blinking text is not adviced, but can't seem to get it to work either (using CSS text-decoration : blink)

Thanks for your help

I have a small box displayed at the top of the page for an "anouncment column". Opera and IE show it properly, sort of, and NEtscape/mozilla show it further down the page. I want it to be at the VERY top of the page, IE/Opera show it a few px down and mozilla/netscape show it a good 10+ down. I have tried playing with padding and it made no difference. These browsers are the new versions.

any ideas?

Code:

<div style="position: absolute; left: 617px; top; 0px; width: 147px; height: 30px; background-color: transperant; padding: 0px;">
<h5>text is here</h5>

</div>

the style sheet
Code:

  body {
    color: #000000;
    background-color: #ffffff;
    font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman",
          Times, serif; 
}
}
  h1 {
FONT-WEIGHT: bold;
text-align: center;
font-size: 30px }
  h2 {
FONT-WEIGHT: bold;
text-align: center;
font-size: 25px }
h3 
{
FONT-WEIGHT: bold;
text-align: center;
font-size: 20px }
h4 
{
FONT-WEIGHT: normal;
text-align: center;
font-size: 15px }
h5 
{ 
padding: 0px;
FONT-WEIGHT: normal;
text-align: center;
font-size: 12px }
h6 
{
FONT-WEIGHT: normal;
text-align: center;
font-size: 9px }
p {
FONT-WEIGHT: normal;
text-align: left;
FONT-WEIGHT: normal;
    color: #000000;
font-size: 12px }
hr {color: #7d7c7c }
.right {text-align: right }
.center {text-align: center } 
.left {text-align: left } 
.uppercase {text-transform: uppercase}
.lowercase {text-transform: lowercase}
.capitalize {text-transform: capitalize}
A:visited {
	COLOR: #802CFF; TEXT-DECORATION: underline
}
A:link {
	COLOR: #2C31FF; TEXT-DECORATION: none
}
A:hover {
	COLOR: #719FFE; TEXT-DECORATION: underline
}
A:active {
	COLOR: #2C31FF; TEXT-DECORATION: underline
}

I've been having a hard time with browser compatibility and I need a bit of help. This is what I'm trying to acheive. It's a link bar on top and then a page that contains left and right headers, dividers and content plus a footer (height is not an issue right now). I would like the #page to have a 2px border and every element inside to have a white 2px padding.
It seems that in IE, if I set #page with a 2px padding, I get exactly what I want but Firefox does not interpret it the same way. Is there a hack/workaround for this. I've attacned a picture of what I'm trying to get at.

Thanks

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<style type="text/css"><!--

html, body {
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
	height:100%;
}

div {
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
}

div#holder {
	margin:auto;
	margin:auto;
	width:800px;
	height:100%;
	background:black;
}

div#links {
	width:auto;
	height:30px;
	background:pink;
}

div#page {
	width:auto;
	height:100%;
	background:white;
	border:2px black solid;
	padding:2px;
}


div#left {
	float:left;
	background:red;
	width:180px;
}

div#right {
	float:right;
	background:blue;
	width:610px;
}

div#footer {
	clear:both;
	width:auto;
	height:30px;
	background:green;
}


--/></style>

</head>
<body>

<div id="holder">
	<div id="links">1</div>
	<div id="page">
		<div id="header">
			<div id="left">1</div>
			<div id="right">1</div>
		</div>
		<div id="divider">
			<div id="left">1</div>
			<div id="right">1</div>
		</div>
		<div id="content">
			<div id="left">1</div>
			<div id="right">1</div>
		</div>
		<div id="footer">1</div>
	</div>
</div>

</body>
</html>

Hello,
With following css for header

Code:

div#header{
	height:75px;
	background-color:#ffffcc;
}

I am getting three different views in IE, FF, Opera. In IE entire background color is pale yellow, In FF only the line is pale yellow. In opera line and area below it is pale yellow.
Here goes goes html.
Code:

<div id="header">
  <h3 align = "center">Welcome to <b>Your Space</b></h3>
</div>

What is going wrong here?
Thank you.

Hello,

I've got a question about CSS3.
That are the correct procedures to make my CSS code compatible with all the browsers ? For example, I want that the elements of my website stay identicals on all the browsers.

Thank you in advance !

My web site (URL address blocked: See forum rules) is causing me problems with CSS since I have reworked it.
If you look at my web pages in Internet Explorer they look perfect. In Firefox when loading some of the pages the top logo blinks and takes a few seconds to load. In Opera some pages move slightly to the right.
I know the problem is related to the length of the center div but I have no idea how to fix this unless I make the small centers longer.
Also my previous version of this site just used one image. Logo.gif was in the background.
I have put Logo.gif in the header and have used GREEN.jpg as my background now.
MY CSS
body {
background-image: url(../images/GREEN.jpg);
}
div.container {
position: relative;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 746px;
height: 840px;
}
#header {
height: 100px;
width: 746px;
background-image: url(../images/Logo.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 50% 0%;
}
#nav {
position: absolute;
top: 110px;
left: 55px;
height: 20px;
width: 640px;
}
#left {
position: absolute;
top: 160px;
left: 0px;
width: 124px;
}
#center {
position: absolute;
top: 160px;
left: 130px;
width: 441px;
height: auto;
border: solid;
}
/* right div at this time has been made invisible. Maybe later add Flash content*/
#right {
position: absolute;
top: 160px;
left: 600px;
width: 130px;
height: 100px;
}
/* this div belongs on photo pages and shows the alphabet on the right.Takes place of right div */
#navalpha {
position: absolute;
top: 160px;
left: 600px;
width: 100px;
height: 130px;
font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;
border: solid;
}
/* Start of Top Menu*/
ul {
list-style: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
font-size: .95em;

}

ul li {
float: left;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
ul li a {
color: #777;
display: block;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
width: auto;
padding: 3px 5px 3px 5px;
border-color: #191970;
border-width: 1px 1px 1px 0;
border-style: solid;
}
ul li.first a {
border-width: 1px;
}

ul li a:hover {
background-color: Fuchsia;
color: Yellow;
}
/* end of Top Menu*/
/* start of side Menu*/
ul#navlist
{
width: 102px;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
border-left: thin solid Black;
font-size: .95em;
float: left;
}
ul#navlist li
{
list-style: none;
margin: 0px;
border: 0px;
}

ul#navlist li a
{
color: #777;
width: 102px;
padding: 2px 8px 2px 8px;
border-color: #191970;
border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0;
border-style: solid;
text-decoration: none;
text-align: left;
}
ul#navlist li.topfirst a {
border-top: 1px solid Black;
}
ul#navlist li a:link { color: Blue;
}
ul#navlist li a:hover
{
border-color: #191970;
color: Red;
background: Yellow;
}
ul#navlist li a:visited {
color: Blue;
}
/* end of side Menu*/
p {
text-align: left;
margin: 0 10px 0 10px;
}
h1 {
font-size: 1.05em;
color: Navy;
text-decoration: underline;
font-style: italic;
font-weight: bold;
font-variant: small-caps;
padding: 0px 0 6px 19px;
border-bottom: 1px dashed navy;
background: url(cube.gif) no-repeat 0 2px;
margin: 0 10px 0 10px;
}
h2 {
font-size: 1em;
color: Navy;
text-decoration: underline;
font-style: italic;
font-weight: bold;
font-variant: small-caps;
margin: 0 10px 0 10px;
}
h3 {
font-size: .9em;
color: Navy;
text-decoration: underline;
font-style: italic;
font-weight: bold;
font-variant: small-caps;
margin: 0 10px 0 10px;
}
a:link {
color: #0000FF;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited {
color: #0000FF;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover {
color: Red;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:active {
text-decoration: none;
}
/*
....................thumbnail determines how the small photos look
*/
.thumbnail
{
float: left;
width: 83px;
height: 115px;
border: 1px solid #999;
margin: 0px 15px 5px 0;
padding: 5px;
}
/*
.................thumbnailUnitBoard determines how the photos look on Unit Board page
*/
.thumbnailUnitBoard
{
float: left;
width: 220px;
margin: 0px 15px 15px 0;
padding: 5px;
}

Hi all,
Compatibility with different browsers, link one and link looks good in ie but gets overlap in Firefox and too far apart in Opera.
Does anyone know how to make this menu compatible with a least these tree browsers. Any help is greatly appreciated thanks.

Code:

<style type="text/css">
ul { list-style-type: none; margin: 1.0em 0 0 30px; padding: 0; position: relative; overflow: visible; height: auto; }
ul li { height: 1.6em; width: 230px; }
ul li a, ul li a:visited { width: 200px; display: block; color: black; text-decoration: none; background: yellow; margin: 0.1em 0 0 0; text-indent: 10px; padding: 3px;}
ul li a:hover { display: block; background: green; color: black; }
ul li a.currentpage, ul li a.currentpage:visited { background: red; color: black; padding: 3px;}
</style>
<ul>
  <li><a href="menu3.html" class="currentpage">Main page </a></li>
  <li><a href="page2.html">Dummy page 2</a></li>
</ul>

I'm in the process of revamping my website and am trying to use css to position things. I've used browsershots to view what the website looks like in different browsers and platforms. All is well with one exception, IE6! Grrr.

Now I'm a total css newbie so what I'm doing wrong is probably painfully obvious to you guys, but I've been beating my head against this for a while now and would appreciate it if someone could take a look over my shoulder and see if they can spot the problem.

If you use IE6 you'll notice that the featured products are listed below the last 'service ad' image instead of at the top of that 'column' even with the first 'serivce ad' image.

Again, any help in diagnosing/fixing this issue is greatly appreciated!

Here's a link to the page:

http://www.decaldepot.net/zencart/index.php

Hi All,

Just in the middle of designing a website for my personal hobbies.

I have used alot of CSS to create the layout of the page.

The problem being it looks perfect in Firefox, Opera, Seamonkey etc etc BUT NOT IE!!!

In IE it is all over the place, nothing is where it should be.

I checked my CSS against w3 validator, and it came back with a few errors, so i decided to fix them... it then looked even worse... in ALL BROWSERS! So i decided to go back to how i had it originally.

The site in question is my username.

You can access the css stylesheet file by adding /test.css to the end of the domain name.

Any information, or anyone else had problem like this?

All the best for now,

Mike

I have been searching/googling and whilst i have found people saying there is a difference in how browsers (IE, FF etc) display fonts, i have yet to find an answer that works.

I have tried the giving body tag "font-size 100%;" method but it doesnt work... some people have said to use px as disabled people will probably override this with their own stylesheets...

I have a three column (25% - 50% - 25%) page layout via CSS which works perfect in IE. But it does not work in Firefox. Here is my CSS code.

#leftColumn {
float:left;
width:25%;
margin: 5px 3px 0px;
padding: 0;
}
* html #leftColumn {
width:25%;
}

#rightColumn {
float:right;
width:25%;
margin: 5px 2px 0px 3px;
padding: 0;
}
* html #rightColumn {
width:25%;
}

#main3Column {
margin:5px 25% 5px 25%;
padding: 0;
/* 50% or auto or no width does not work in IE.
100% here is the remaining of the available after left and right columns */
width:100%;
}

The ID 'main3Column' is for the middle column. Width: 100% works fine in IE as it excludes 25% for left and 25% for right and 100% of whatever remaining for the middle column.

But in Firefox, middle column is taking 100% of the screen width instead of the remaining after left and right columns.

Is it possible to come up with a code which works for both IE and CSS ? Please help.

good day

looking for some css that is compeltely compatable among all major browsers.. namely firefox, ie, safari, and opera.. i've been searching all over the net and forums for css, but cant find any..

i just want a simple 3 column layout, with the middle column being auto width, and left and right fixed width.. can someone point me in the right direct?